Finding Patterns | Jacob Hashimoto

If artists Yayoi Kusama (she of the polka dots) and Yinka Shonibare (he of the African fabrics refashioned into some kind of Western icon of art history) had a love child, it would be Jacob Hashimoto. While both Kusama and Shonibare are having blockbuster shows at Gagosian gallery and the Brooklyn Museum respectively, the tapestries of Hashimoto quietly hang at Mary Boone. (Kusama, who is celebrating her 80th birthday this year, also has a show up at Victoria Miro in London.)

The Brooklyn-based Hashimoto makes small “kites” — hexagons made from bamboo and layers of colored rice paper — and suspends them with nylon fishing line to create kaleidoscopic wall hangings that shimmer and cascade as the vistor passes by. Some suggest video games, vistas and 1960s-style wallpaper. With haiku-style titles like “Awake Under the Huge Starry Sky” and “Cutting Stems in the Oxygen Garden,” the works are ethereal. If you miss Hashimoto at Mary Boone, (the show closes June 27), you can check out his work at Otero Plassart in Los Angeles, starting September 12.